- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend.
WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster…
It had such a knowledge of the user’s needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying.
The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90’s, which eventually, of course, they did.
Unfortunately, we didn’t teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that.
Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.
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Make default programs support opening webp files and the problem goes away. Until that happens users have every reason to convert files from a format that is a pain in the ass to open.
Make default programs support JPEG XL and the problem goes away, too, all with less Google.
Naming a compression scheme “XL” seems like a bad choice.
I have no idea what you mean. Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta be getting back to my job at Titanic Boat Repair.
This. No programs I routinely use images for support it.
They do.
Photos in windows supports it. Preview on Mac OS/photos on iOS supports it. I assume anything android would support it as well. Plus every web browser supports it.
But it took a while for it, and many people are probably running old software without the updates, so at this point the hate has cemented.
Nothing to do with users. Operating systems don’t support it in their default file managers and viewers.
I can view webp easily on both windows and Linux, but I don’t use the default windows photo viewer because it started sucking a few years ago. I don’t even know what I use
Lemmy converts all uploads to webp.
Also the reason people don’t like it is because gallery apps and the like are behind the times, so you can’t just, open webps, sometimes.
Lemmy converts all uploads to webp.
Does it? I downloaded this post from Liftoff, it’s a jpg.
At least my instance does. You’re right, this post is hosted on .world and is a jpg.
And Discord doesn’t like webp as format for custom emotes. That’s the main reason I’ve been converting them to png or gif
Lack of good integrated support in Windows and Mac, as well as no native way to convert from webp means it is good when it is good, but infuriating when it is bad. If you just need something to work, you don’t want to fight with converting image formats, you just want to move on.
I supported the idea of webp, still do, but it’s 100% less widely supported on legacy software, and the OS does nothing to interpret for those software packages.
